A Test of Abstract Reasoning Is Given to a Random

question 36

Multiple Choice

A test of abstract reasoning is given to a random sample of students before and after they completed a formal logic course. The results are given below. Construct a 95% confidence
Interval for the mean difference between the before and after scores. $\begin{array}{lllllllllll}\text { Before } & 74 & 83 & 75 & 88 & 84 & 63 & 93 & 84 & 91 & 77 \\\hline \text { After } & 73 & 77 & 70 & 77 & 74 & 67 & 95 & 83 & 84 & 75\end{array}$

• A) \(1.0 < \mu _ { d } < 6.4\)
• B) \(0.2 < \mu _ { d } < 7.2\)
• C) \(0.8 < \mu _ { d } < 6.6\)
• D) \(1.2 < \mu _ { d } < 8.7\)

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